UK eInformation Group

UKeiG is a respected and well-established forum for all information professionals, users and developers of electronic information resources. We promote and advance the effective exploitation and management of electronic information and offer a wide range of resources including seminars and workshops. Access is also available to our e-journal eLucidate, our Publications and our popular series of Factsheets.

Latest News

[31 July 2015] The Open University press release notes, "Digital devices such as tablets and smartphones can play a key role in developing children’s love of reading, educational researchers at The Open University have found. Young children enjoy using digital media, and their pleasure...

[29 July 2015] Sheffield Hallam University has announced the inaugural Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference #SocMedHE15, a one day conference dealing with the use of social media for learning in Higher Education.

Training/Events

There is an increasing array of emerging social networking technologies which can be used to successfully market your information service and Ned Potter moves beyond the basics to focus on freely available tools which help you communicate with existing and potential users.

Just when you think you've worked out how Google works it all changes, not just a few commands but the whole way Google searches and displays results. Karen Blakeman tackles issues such as: extreme personalisation by Google – when and why, and how to curb it and Google's specialist tools and databases.

As the requirement to present to an audience and create presentations for use online becomes ubiquitous across many different information roles, Ned Potter's course equips delegates with the skills and confidence they need to excel at it.

This introductory course from Chris Armstrong and Ray Lonsdale is designed to support librarians who are beginning to set up e-book collections, and will offer the opportunity to explore a range of e-books as well as covering some of the issues - including licensing - surrounding their acquisition.

Just when you think you've worked out how Google works it all changes, not just a few commands but the whole way Google searches and displays results. Karen Blakeman tackles issues such as: extreme personalisation by Google – when and why, and how to curb it and Google's specialist tools and databases.

UKeiG is pleased to announce the first in a series of annual lectures associated with the prestigious Tony Kent Strix Award for information retrieval. Each year the previous year's winner will be invited to talk and answer questions about their research. These lectures should be of interest to all archive, records, information or knowledge manager concerned with search and the retrieval of information.